Aparna Jain

Biographic Data

ID5990941
NAMEAparna Jain
GIVEN NAMESAparna
FAMILY NAMEJain
SIGNATUREJAIN A
AFFILIATIONSPopulation Council
ORCID0000-0003-1683-3341
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • A Study On Evaluating Service Quality Of Mumbai Metro Trains Using Servqual Model - Line 1, Line 2a And Line 7

    Open AccessAparna Jain, Aafreen Shah et al.ARTICLEMIGRATION LETTERS2024

    The main aim of the study is to measure the service quality of Mumbai metro trains in general and to evaluate the service quality gap between the perception and expectation of commuters, as there are many metro lines under construction but the present study focuses only on 3 metro lines that are in operation currently, the two new lines of the Mumbai metro viz Line 2A - Andheri West to Anand Nagar and Line 7 - Gundavli to Dahisar started in Janua…

  • Introduction to the Special Issue

    Open AccessJeffrey B Bingenheimer, Karen Hardee et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2023Cited by: 6References: 33

    In August of 2021, the Editorial Committee of Studies in Family Planning put out a call for abstracts for a special issue focused on indicators in sexual and reproductive health and rights.We did so in response to our perception of a growing demand in the field not only for advances in measurement, with fresh thinking on ways to measure progress beyond existing indicators, many of which have been critiqued as more program-centered than personcent…

  • New Client‐Centered Discontinuation Measures Using the Demographic and Health Survey Calendar Data

    Open AccessAparna Jain, Elizabeth TobeyARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2022References: 2

    The main source of method discontinuation data comes from the calendar data of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). DHS considers each episode of use contributed by a woman in the calendar to calculate method discontinuation. This means that episodes from women who contribute only one episode of contraceptive use are combined with episodes from women who contribute multiple episodes of use. This paper explores the DHS calculation of episode‐…

  • Not All Women Who Experience Side Effects Discontinue Their Contraceptive Method

    Open AccessAparna Jain, Sara Chace Dwyer et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2021Cited by: 1References: 16

    Side effects are a primary reason why women stop using contraception, even though they may still want to avoid a pregnancy. The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), the largest source of nationally representative data on contraceptive discontinuation, only asks women who discontinued a method their reasons for discontinuation, for which side effects is an option. Yet, side effects are also experienced by continued users. Using longitudinal data …

  • Adolescent Fertility Is Lower than Expected in Rural Areas

    Open AccessClémentine Rossier, Bruno D Schoumaker et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2020References: 33

    The adolescent birth rate (ABR) is an important indicator of maternal health, adolescent sexual health, and gender equity; it remains high in sub‐Saharan Africa. While Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are the main source of ABR estimates, Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) also produce ABRs. Studies are lacking, however, to assess the ease of access and accuracy of HDSS ABR measures. In this paper, we use birth and exposure da…

  • Stigma as a barrier to family planning use among married youth in Ethiopia

    Open AccessAparna Jain, Hussein Ismail et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2019

    Nearly 33 million female youths have an unmet need for voluntary family planning (FP), meaning they are sexually active and do not want to become pregnant. In Ethiopia, age at marriage remains low: 40% and 14% of young women aged 20–24 were married by the ages of 18 and 15, respectively. Despite increases in FP use by married 15- to 24-year-olds from 5% in 2000 to 37% in 2016, unmet need remains high at 19%. Supply-and-demand factors have been sh…

  • The effect of job aids on knowledge retention among Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors trained to administer injectable contraceptives

    Open AccessSara Chace Dwyer, Aparna Jain et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    PPMVs who used at least two FP job aids were more likely to correctly answer key injectable contraceptive questions 9 months after training. Incorporating proven job aids into routine trainings is a low-cost strategy that can reinforce knowledge and help PPMVs to retain information

  • Validation of Two Quality of Care Measures

    Open AccessAparna Jain, Kumudha Aruldas et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning2019Cited by: 8References: 19

    Bruce's quality of care framework, developed nearly three decades ago, brought needed international attention to family planning services. Various data collection efforts exist to measure the quality of contraceptive services. Our study validates two process quality measures and tests their predictive validity related to contraceptive continuation among 2,699 married women who started to use a reversible contraceptive method in India. We assessed…